Agenda Overview for KNOWLEDGE MARKETPLACE – Bangkok 2022

For full agenda with details of each session Webpage or PDF or follow individual links below for dedicated posts

This agenda consists of PUBLIC events, BY INVITATION ONLY events and CLOSED events as listed below. For further information about the agenda & attending events please contact: myanmar@idrc.ca

Photo Exhibit November 22nd until December 4th [ Daily, except Monday] 10.00am – 20.00pm, BACC 5th Floor, Curved Walls

DAY 1 – Friday 25 November, LAUNCH of the K4DM KNOWLEDGE MARKETPLACE – Bangkok 2022.
Venue: BACC 5th floor ( Hall Area, Room 501, Curved walls). 1pm – 8pm [OPEN TO PUBLIC]

• Opening Reception. Beverages & Light snack available & Live Burmese music [1:00pm – 2:00pm]
• Welcome Remarks. Edgard Rodriguez (IDRC – Delhi) & Jason Tulk (GAC – Canadian embassy – Yangon) [2:00pm – 2:15pm, BACC 5th Floor, Room 501]
• Book Launch: “Winning by Process”. Moderator: Prof. Kai Ostwald (UBC), Speaker: Jacques Bertrand (co-author)[2:15pm – 3:45pm, BACC 5th Floor, Room 501]
• Roundtable Discussion: “Thought leadership to advance knowledge for Myanmar: What should come next?” [4:00 – 5:30pm, BACC 5th Floor, Room 501]
• Opening of Photo Exhibit “Through Eyes of Leadership: Women of Shan State” / “Ask the photographer” [5:30pm-6:00pm, Hall Area, outside Room 501]
• Open Photo Exhibit & Networking – Tea break & Live Burmese music [Until 8pm]
  
  Photo Exhibit continues until December 4th [ Daily, except Monday] 10.00am – 20.00pm, BACC 5th Floor, Curved walls

DAY 2 – Saturday 26th November.
Venue: BACC Room 4th Floor – SEA Junction. 10.30am – 3.30pm [BY INVITATION ONLY]

• “Observe & act”: Participatory research with Ethnic Armed Organizations & progress on the agenda on Women, Peace and Security [10:30am – 12pm]
• Tea Circle (I): Retrospective on the use of blogs to open virtual civic Venues [2pm – 3:30 pm]

DAY 3 – Sunday 27th November.
Venue: BACC Room 4th Floor – SEA Junction. 10.30am – 3.30pm [BY INVITATION ONLY]

• Tea Circle (II): Writing Workshop- Blog/Social Media (in-person only) [10:30am – 12pm]
• The Virtual Federal University (VFU): Conversation on Distance Learning for Myanmar [2pm – 3:30 pm]

DAY 4 – Monday 28th November

• BACC closed. Photo Exhibit closed
• Bangkok: K4DM Regional Advisory Committee By invitation from IDRC only  [11 – 12:30pm] [BY INVITATION ONLY]
• Chiang Mai: Book Launch: “Winning by Process” [1 – 3pm] Prof. Bertrand – Book Launch, Chiang Mai University campus, with Ashley South and Tony Neil as discussants, organized by RCSD, Chiang Mai University [OPEN TO PUBLIC]

DAY 5 – Tuesday 29th November.
Venue: BACC Room 4th Floor – SEA Junction. 10am – 7:30pm [BY INVITATION ONLY & PUBLIC]

• Women in the GIG Economy in Thailand and Myanmar.[10am – 11:30am]
• Update on Federalism in Myanmar [11:45am – 1:15pm]
• Post Covid-19 Recovery: Updates for Myanmar and the Mekong. [2pm – 3:30 pm]
• Climate Change: Challenges and solutions for the Future of Myanmar.[3.45pm – 5pm]
  
• “Burma Spring: Poetry & Photography in Resistance” [6-7:30pm] [OPEN EVENT]

DAY 6 – Wednesday 30th November.
Venue: BACC Room 4th Floor – SEA Junction. 10am – 8pm [BY INVITATION ONLY & PUBLIC]

• Digital Research – Part I – Understanding the Digital Risk Environment in Myanmar. (SecDev Foundation) [10am – 11:30am]
• Gender Equality, Democracy & Social Change: The Sustainable Role of Women before, and during Spring Revolution and Beyond [11:45am – 1:30pm]
• Digital Research – Part II – “Digital duty of care: can we undertake safe social research in Myanmar?” (SecDev Foundation) [2pm – 4pm]
• Book Launch: Myanmar After the Coup: resistance, resilience & re-invention [5pm – 6:30pm]. [OPEN TO PUBLIC]
• Closing reception – Networking [6:30pm – 8pm]

DAY 7 – Thursday 1st December.

• “Schools, Blood, Guns, & Bombs: Education in Myanmar’s Pro-Democracy Struggle” (Australian National University)
  [Dec 1 – 8-9:30am – OPEN ONLINE EVENT – register here for link Webinar Registration – Zoom]
  
• 6th Regional Conference on Migration: “From old normal to new normal and back? Migration research and policy in the changing world” [OPEN register on link below] [Dec 1 & 2]
  Registration form 6th MMC Regional Conference (google.com)
  
  Panel Session “Gender, fisheries and migration” organized by Chair, Kyoko Kusakabe (Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) ) [Dec 1, 10am-noon, Venue: Mahidol University’s Migration Center, Bangkok]
  
• Role of Foreign Aid in Myanmar. (Frontier Magazine and Kivu International) [BY INVITATION ONLY]
  [ 4:30pm – 6:30pm, Mercure Siam Bangkok & online ] Pre-register via event page https://fb.me/e/1Yif0wtqA

Friday 2nd December

• Myanmar Interactive Dialogue. (Chiang Mai University) [BY INVITATION ONLY]
  [3 – 5pm, Venue: RCSD, International Building, Chiang Mai University campus]
  Moderator: Kyaw Kyaw – Chiang Mai University. If interested, please contact kyaw.cmu@gmail.com

Sunday 4th December

• Effective approaches to communicating and disseminating in a post-coup context. [CLOSED EVENT]
  CLOSED EVENT – Only by invitation from Organizer (Kivu International) [ Full day (3 sessions): 10 am to 5pm, Mercure Siam Bangkok, TBC]
  

For further information about the agenda & attending events please contact: myanmar@idrc.ca